Justice Breyer came up with this concept during oral arguments today, and it was too fruity to pass up.

Still, I take from what you are saying that — let's make up an imaginary importance of ordered liberty chart, and we give it to James Madison and the other framers.  And he would say insofar as that right to bear arms is important for the purpose of maintaining the militia, it's high on the ordered liberty chart.  Insofar as the right to bear arms is there to shoot burglars, it's low on the ordered liberty chart.

He's …

From a lecture by John Pilger, given at an event called Socialism 2009 ("New Left for a New Era").  Mr. Pilger thinks our current President isn't liberal enough:

During his brief period in the Senate, Obama voted to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He voted for the Patriot Act. He refused to support a bill for single-payer health care. He supported the death penalty. As a presidential candidate he received more corporate backing than John McCain. He promised to close Guantanamo as a priority, but instead

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Domino sugar, "now certified Carbonfree."  Spotted in WalMart.

I am, of course, compelled to point out that the molecular formula for sucrose is C12H22O11.  That's 12 atoms of carbon.

According to Domino, what they actually mean is that the "carbon footprint" of the production process is neutral.  Evidently, that was just too clunky of a slogan to put on the label, so they settled for implying that their product is composed only of colorless gases.

Hey, whatever makes you feel all self-righteous…

So, a twentyish sort started asking me about AR-15 rifles.  He was interested in starting cheap and building up from there.  Fair enough.

Then he asked me which model was more "tactical."  Devoid of any context, that term really doesn't have any meaning, folks.

Realizing that I was edging into serious Mall Ninja territory, I chose to throw in some lingo.  I told him that the answer would depend on how he planned on "deploying" the rifle.

He responded that, for him, a fiream is "just a fallback, if you know what I mean."

I assured him that I didn't know what he meant, and then he said it:

"I don't really need a gun.  My hands are registered as lethal weapons."

He said this without the slightest hint of irony.  He was serious.

Fact: The Mayan calendar ends in 2012!

Fact: Pseudoscientists and late-night radio DJ's agree that a previously unseen planet called Nibiru will impact the Earth in 2012, wiping out most life on the planet!

Fact: This will present a major inconvenience for many.

Coincidence or PROPHECY???

The government has failed to act on this threat!

In fact, the GOVERNMENT has not even acknowledged that there IS a threat!

This is proof of a VAST CONSPIRACY to protect the rich and privileged!

Don’t be left out in the cold when the comet

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Oh, that was McGovern.  Oops.  I'd much rather vote McGivern anyhow.

If her performance in tonight's Vice Presidential debate was any indication, Sarah Palin's going to be one heck of a VP, doggone it.

Only one thing bothers me, and it's like fingernails being raked down a chalkboard.  She pronounces "nuclear" as "noo-kyu-ler."  I know many of the Silent Generation folks enunciated it that way, but I'll cut them some slack.  Even the sitting President has a problem with it.

But for someone only a few years older than me, it's not really acceptable.  I mean, it's not like there's a silent "p" or anything: the word's …

There's a lesson here, and it isn't pretty.

[Clayton County Commissioner Eldrin] Bell was one of 600-800 people attending strip club franchise owner Jack Galardi's invitation-only, annual Fourth of July party in Butts County on Saturday. Galardi's empire includes Pink Pony South, a recently opened strip club in Forest Park.

Bell said he took advantage of a firing range on Galardi's 500-acre Flovilla ranch to try out a friend's new "high caliber" handgun.

"Fire jumped out between the barrel and the cylinder [the cylinder gap] and really cauterized, burned my thumb," Bell said Monday. "It looks ugly."

–Atlanta Journal-Constitution

They save me from wading through nuggets of wisdom like this, from akryr@hotmail.com:

WTF?!?!! I try to register on your site but it doesn't work…98% of the world uses Explorer, so get over it LOL! It's only like 10% use Firefox!

No, really. Some people really have nothing better to do with their time. This is why I don't cater to IE on the site. It just brings out the worst in people. To those who insist on using it, I have only one thing to say:

perl -e …

Well, you can start by giving him or her a really stupid name. The Atlanta Journal has published a database of the most common baby names in Georgia.

Some are truly horrendous. I'm pretty sure that if you name your child Chancellor (as 78 people did), he'll spend most of his primary school years being beaten up for his lunch money. Naming a girl Heaven-Leigh is a sure-fire way to ensure she'll grow up to be a stripper, but six parents did just that.

Mike Rolfs was kind enough to send along a link to the original mallninja.com, archived at the Wayback Machine. Take a moment to stroll down memory lane with the men who keep our shopping malls safe.

Oh, get over it.